Iconic Films

For once, banks aren't being greedy

The most imprudent thing banks could do would be to heed Gordon Brown's call for rate cuts

Can we let terrorists go free?

As we get tangled up in human rights law, Abu Qatada and others escape deportation

Why are we going back to coal?

This Governments antediluvian policy of backing a new coal-fired power station is absurd

Credit crunch: learn from the US

Compare the Bank of England's dithering with the decisiveness across the Atlantic

Child protection? No, ruination

Two men are incarcerated by the State, when they should be the stability in two children's lives

The EU vote: a shameful, squalid moment

Parliament this week connived with Brussels to give away its power

Biofuels cannot save the planet

Importing biofuels risks raising food prices and razing forests, with significant quantities of energy used for delivery

Get your cocaine from Superdrug

The celebrity glamorisation of drugs is irrelevant. There would be huge benefits from legalisation

If it's all in the mind, fine

There's a lot about depression we don't know. So if placebos work, we should be happy

British justice: a family ruined

A chilling example of our secret State where a mother and child are forced into hiding

The sweet rewards of sweat and toil

Money alone won't unlock creative talent. Nor will centralising the arts

One person can lift America's gloom

Barack Obama, not the divisive, manipulative Hillary Clinton, can make the US powerful again

The great Heathrow con

The British public have been led to believe the third runway is essential.That's untrue

You can't touch tinpot Ken

The Mayor of London's distaste for democracy has sent him beyond the pale

Caution! The State has gone haywire

The new anti-nannying quango will not be able to stop the idiocies of big government

A dark shadow behind nuclear power

The tough decision for Brown is about coal, especially if Britain keeps shilly-shallying on energy

Free the 'Grandfather One'

Is it really in the public interest that a grandparent is jailed for not avoiding his grandson?

They fanned the flames of panic

Britain's financial regulators have failed in their duty to calm down the City's jitters